Balling-machine.



PATBNTED MAR. 20, l1906.

\ A VE RHOADES BALLING MACHINE.

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UNITED STATESl ALONZO EHOADES, 0E HOPEDALE,` MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOE To Y DEAPEE coMPANY, 0E HOPEDALE, MASSACHUSETTS, Av CORPORA- TION OF MAINE.

No.815,37s.

BALLING-MACHINE.

ratenteoi March 20, 1906.LA

v Application ledfMarch 1,1905. SerialNo. 247.887.

ysac usetts, have invented an Improvement in Balling-Malchines, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanyin drawings, is a specification, like letters and gures von the drawings representing like parts.4

In chain-warping a ball-ingg machine is used, the warp-threads being taken from spools in the usual creel through the regular warper to the front comb, where the leasing motion is generally applied, and after passing therethrough the warp ends are brought together in a trumpet'v and carried in chain orm over and around a pulley, and thence backward to a traverse-guide, which Winds the chain into a ball. The warp'er is provided with a measuring-roll which drivesv a clock. mechanismas, for instance, such asis shown in United States Patent No. 7 66,383, granted to me on the 2d day ofAugust, 1904- to measure the yarn and eHect automatically the stoppage of the apparatus when a predetermined length of warp has passed the measuring roll, so that a thread lease may be taken in the chain.l The measuring-roll subjects the yarn to considerable strain, which is objectionable, and in my present invention I- have dispensed entirely with the roll, and thereby overcome the objectionable strai-n referred to. lInasmuch as the yarn must be measured, I have herein provided means for driving a clock mechanism by or through the pulley of the balling-machine, which subjects the yarn to no additional or undue strain.

The novel features of myr invention will be fully Idescribed in the subjoined specification and particularly pointed out in the following claims.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a sufiicient I portion 'of a balling-machine to be understood, showing one embodiment of my present invention. Fig. 2 is-an inner' end or rear view .of the main portion of the ap aratus illustrated in Fig. 1 viewed from the le. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the scroll and its attached worm-gear'illustrated in Fig. 1. Fig.

` l4 1s a perspective view, on a smaller scale, of

the machine, omitting the lower part of its supporting-column to show the relative position of the various operating parts. The upright standard or column 1, having an open head 2, provided with bearings 3 for the shaft 4 of the pulley 5, and the adj ustablymounted trumpet 6, which collectsthe warp ends Vinto a chain as they pass from the warper, may be and are all of usual construction, the chain '7 passing around the pulley and being led rearwardly to the roll 8, on which the ball Wound, (see Fig. 1,) the ball being driven as Wound on the roller by two cylinders or drums 9.

In accordance with my resent invention the pulley-shaft 4 is exten ed at one side beyondjthe head-2 (see Fig. 2) and has iiixedly mounted thereon a gear 10 and a worm l1, the-gear meshing with a pinion 12 on a shaft 13, rotatably mounted in a sleeve-bearing 14,

(see dotted lines, Fig. 1,) and said shaft has secured to its outer end a worm 15. shaft is eccentric .to the longitudinal axis of the bearing 14, the latter being rotatably mounted in atubular support 16, iiXedly secured to the head 2, all substantiallyvas in my Patent No. 7 66,383, hereinbefore referred to.

The warper'- clock C, having a setting-V wheel 0X anda transmitting-gear c, adapted to mesh with the worm 15, is of usual construction, the clockmeasuring the length of the chain which passes over the pulley 5, the` The gearing 10, 12, 15, and c, Fi 2, constituting Y actuating means for the cloc i. By means of a handle 17, pivotally connected with an arm 1 8, rigidly secured to the bearing 14, the latter can be manually turned toWithdraw the worm 15 from. engagement with the transmitting-gear c, so that the clock can be reset or otherwise manipulated, all as in my patent referred to.

I will now describe the scroll and coperating Enger for controlling a stopping instrumentality andthe means for operating the scroll. y

A bracket 19, secured to the head 2, has bearings 20, Fig. 1, for a horizontal Shaft 21,

.i provided at its rear end with a pinion 22 and at its opposite front end with a worm-gear 23 in mesh with the Worm 11 on the pulleyshaft 4.

A horizontal'arm 24, boltedto the end of the bracket 19, hasadjustably secured to it a ico bearing 25, Figs. 1 and 2, for the short shaft of a gear 26, meshing with the pinion 22, the gear also meshing with and driving a gear 27,

'having its shaft supported in a bearing 28 of a scroll 31, (shown separately in Fig. 3,)a

deep slot 32, Fig. 1, being provided at the end of the scroll-groove. A inger 33, slidably mounted on a rod'34, parallel to the axis of rotation of the scroll, travels in the scrollgroove and is held therein by the elongated head 35X (see Fig. 4) of a Weighted arm 35, the scroll and iinger, worm gear 30, and worm 29 forming a stopping-clock substantially such as shown in- United States Patent No. 624,541, granted to me May 9, 1899, and operating as therein set forth. The linger 33 drops into the slot 32 when it reaches the end of the scroll-groove, and thereby lowers an arm 36, iXedly connected with the finger. This arm is connected in usual manner with the stopping instrumentality of the warper, only the upper end of a link 37 being herein shown as a part of said connection, as it and the stopping instrumentality are well known and not of my invention. As is well known to those familiar with such apparatus, the cooperation of the finger 33 and the scroll gradually causes the finger to slide along the rod 34 until the outer end of the scroll is reached, the head 35X of the weighted arm 35 being shaped to present a longitudinal upturned lip or ridge 50, which can be best seen in Fig. 4, the inger sliding along the top of such rib. When it is desired to permit withdrawal of the iinger from the scroll, the arm 35 is swung upward to the right, Figs. 1 and 4, and thereby the turning of the head 35 moves the rib away from beneath the iinger, freeing the same.

The pinion 22, gears 26 27, and worm 29, with worm 11 and worm-gear 23, constitute a speed-reducing and driving connection between the pulley 5 and the stop-motion-controlling clock, the latter operating through the movement of the inger 33 when the pulley 5 has made a predetermined number of revolutions corresponding to a deiinite length of chain 7 assed thereover.

The cloc C,hereinbefore referred to,serves merely to indicate on the dial thereof the number of yards of chain which has passed around the pulley 5. lnasmuch as the diameter of the latter is relatively large and `"the warps are in chain form where passing around it, there is no objectionable strain put upon the warps and the clock mechanism is accurately and easily operated.

By making the bearing 25 adjustable the gear 26 and pinion 22 can be removed and a gear and pinion of different diameters substituted as a change-@fear device.

Having fully described my invention, what l claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. ln a balling-machine, a rotatable pulley around which the yarn-chain passes, and mechanism operatively connected with and driven by the pulley, said mechanism including a scroll and a coperating finger, and a speed-reducing connection including a changgear and pinion between the pulley and the scroll,

2. ln a balling-machine, a driven roll, a rotatable pulley around which the yarn-chain passes to the roll to be wound thereupon, a pulley-shaft, a gear and a worm fast on said shaft and rotatable with the pulley, a measuring-clock having a inion in mesh with and continuously driven by said gear, a separate scroll and cooperating finger, adapted to cause the stoppage of the ro l independently of said clock, and speed-reducing transmitting-gearing intermediate the scroll and said worm and actuated thereby, said scroll and clock' being continuously and separately driven by the rotation of the pulley.

In testimony whereof l have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ALONZO E. RHOADES.

' Witnesses:

GEORGE OTrs DRAPER, ERNEST WV. Woon 

